I'm entering my final year at my university and I am enrolled in my school's Co-op program. I'm primarily targeting software engineering, backend, DevOps/Infrastructure internship roles.
I have been applying to roles all across Canada, I am open to relocating and have been applying to local and non-local positions, including remote positions too.
I do not have any previous formal internship experience. The closest thing I have is a 4-month long external-client software engineering capstone project where I was part of a 8 person student development team building an actual B2B application. Other than that most of my experience is from personal projects or university projects. I am working part-time in a non technical role.
I have applied pretty broadly since I want at least one internship before graduating. My course coordinator told me that this coming winter/summer is my last chance to complete an internship before my graduation.
I am trying to get some feedback because I have submitted a large number of applications and only really received a single interview. I want to know if if the problem is my experience, my projects or just something else?
Should I bring back unrelated employment and volunteer work experience or just keep the resume entirely technical? Should I remove somethings from my resume?
I am a Canadian Citizen if that helps.
Source: r/EngineeringResumes · by /u/ned-roshan-ma